Internet of Things
The phenomenon of connected machines is sometimes called the Internet of
Things, the Internet of Anything, the Internet of Everything, or M2M
(machine to machine). But no matter what the name, the growth of technology
related to objects, which never before were network- and computer-enabled,
is projected to have far-reaching technological, societal, and economic
impact.
The strongest examples of the impact of the Internet of Things are in the
industrial sector. Embedded software, sensors, and network connectivity
promises to improve the way factories, data centers, oil wells, and cities,
airplanes, cars, and even homes are maintained because data can be collected
continuously with alerts issues proactively to prevent failures and outages.
According to Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group, 50 billion devices
will be connected by 2020, up from 2010's 12.5 billion. By 2020, data
production will be 44 times greater than it was in 2009, and by 2020, more
than one-third of the data produced will live in or pass through the cloud,
according to Computer Sciences Corp.
Internet of Things Articles
As part of Oracle's distributed cloud strategy, the company is launching Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer with NVIDIA GPU configurations and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance with GPU configurations (available in March), featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs to bring enterprise-grade AI, graphics, and high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities directly into any location—including data centers.
Posted February 19, 2025
Oracle NetSuite today is introducing a series of AI innovations and other new product updates that will help organizations increase efficiency and accelerate growth. According to the company, the latest updates across the suite build on the comprehensive AI capabilities embedded in NetSuite and will enable customers to take advantage of new pre-configured solutions, third-party integrations, and procurement and billing enhancements.
Posted February 19, 2025
The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) is constantly evolving to adapt to changes in technology and application development methods. Once primarily focused on managing physical hardware and software, DBAs now find themselves navigating a complex landscape of cloud technologies, AI-driven automation, and ever-increasing data volumes. Here at the beginning of 2025, let's explore the top five concerns that keep DBAs up at night.
Posted February 19, 2025
BlackFog, a leader in ransomware prevention and anti data exfiltration (ADX), is introducing next-generation cybersecurity protection for macOS to provide comprehensive threat coverage for all Apple devices running macOS Ventura or later. This solution expands upon its robust protection for Windows, Android, and ChromeOS, according to the company.
Posted February 14, 2025
Since the term's inception in the late 2000s, "DevOps" is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with the latest iteration including AI-assisted coding and platform engineering. Simultaneously, certain companies are struggling to master database operations. As a result, many organizations have data that sits in silos and/or can be hard to track down. What today's businesses need is a way to combine DevOps and data management, ultimately creating a Database DevOps framework.
Posted February 13, 2025
Satori, an industry-leading data security platform, is unveiling its new capabilities that enable security teams to control of all customer data across the development lifecycle in a simple, cost-effective, and holistic way—automating the daunting tasks of discovering data, risk assessment, providing granular access control, and mitigating security risks quickly across cloud platforms like AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and MongoDB.
Posted February 10, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted February 10, 2025
SolarWinds Corporation, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Turn/River Capital in an all-cash transaction for $18.50 per share or approximately $4.4 billion.
Posted February 07, 2025
Submissions for nominations are now open for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period is open through March 7, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 07, 2025
Quest Software, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, data management, and migration, is offering the next iteration of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and disaster recovery to challenge outdated models and set new standards for proactive defense and rapid recovery.
Posted February 06, 2025
Dynatrace, a leading AI-powered observability platform, is expanding its powerful AI engine, Davis AI, to move enterprises beyond reactive AIOps to true preventive operations. According to the company, these enhanced capabilities enable organizations to predict and prevent potential incidents before they occur through AI-driven automation, while accelerating problem investigation and enhancing automated remediation when issues do arise.
Posted February 05, 2025
Nowadays, organizations need to migrate and move data from the Oracle database to various data lakes, such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. These data lakes are used in data analytics and by data scientists which help organizations to process vast amounts of data in real time or batch, derive insights, and make data-driven decisions.
Posted February 05, 2025
Oracle is using connectivity from Starlink, a satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit to deliver broadband internet, to enable high-speed communications for the Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
Posted February 05, 2025
GridGain, provider of a leading real-time data processing and analytics platform, is introducing GridGain for AI, enabling organizations to use GridGain as a low-latency data store for real-time AI workloads.
Posted February 04, 2025
DTEX Systems, a trusted leader of insider risk management, announced that it is an official member of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative hosted by The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source.
Posted February 03, 2025
Perforce Software, a DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security, and compliance at scale along the development life cycle, is introducing AI Validation, a new capability within its Perfecto continuous testing platform for web and mobile applications that will change the way organizations experience testing.
Posted February 03, 2025
Backblaze, Inc. is unveiling the latest release of its B2 Cloud Storage platform, featuring a variety of updates that improve enterprise security, streamline workflows and data migration, and more.
Posted January 31, 2025
Seraphic Security, a leader in enterprise browser security, announced it has secured $29 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the organization to accelerate its product roadmap and market expansion in North America and EMEA.
Posted January 31, 2025
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest version of MicroStrategy ONE, helping enterprises gain rapid value from generative AI (GenAI) by personalizing the AI experience. According to the company, MicroStrategy's Auto AI bot delivers a human-like conversational experience for users interacting with data.
Posted January 31, 2025
Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding, enabling the company to continue its work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises.
Posted January 30, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 30, 2025
Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, announced that it has topped its funding to $100 million, enabling the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains. This total amount of funding includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.
Posted January 29, 2025
Qt Group is launching Qt AI Assistant, an experimental tool for streamlining cross-platform user interface (UI) development with the goal of reducing repetitive UI development tasks that often do not involve coding.
Posted January 28, 2025
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multi-cloud application connectivity solution that provides a modern approach to connecting disparate applications and infrastructure.
Posted January 24, 2025
Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, is launching Dataiku Optimizer for Snowflake, a Snowflake Native App that empowers joint customers to monitor and improve their usage of Snowflake services while working within their Dataiku solutions.
Posted January 23, 2025
Given the criticality of understanding the breadth and depth of software audits, and the consequential costs, this survey, "The Rising Cost of Software Compliance: 2025 Survey on Software Audits," has been conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. to gain a better understanding of the current state of software licensing and audit trends.
Posted January 22, 2025
OpenAI is partnering with Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle to form the Stargate Project—a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. According to an announcement by OpenAI, the project will begin deploying $100 billion immediately.
Posted January 22, 2025
Indeavor announced the availability of its workforce management solution, Indeavor Operate, on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Indeavor's solution integrates with SAP S/4 Hana, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Timesheet, and delivers advanced workforce management capabilities, enabling customers to streamline scheduling, improve compliance, and enhance productivity across facilities to customers.
Posted January 22, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 22, 2025
Oracle announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. Oracle's converged database architecture enables customers to leverage multiple data and application development models to support enterprise data and AI workloads.
Posted January 22, 2025
Atlas Salt, Inc., a new developer in Canada's mining industry, is using Oracle's project and financial management solutions to support the development of the Great Atlantic Salt (GAS) deposit. The GAS project, which is set to initially produce up to 2.5 million tons of rock salt annually, represents North America's first new salt mine in nearly three decades.
Posted January 22, 2025
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, is expanding its strategic collaboration with Micron Technology, Inc., a global leader in memory and storage solutions, to enable high-capacity and energy-efficient solutions that hyperscalers require using Micron G9 QLC NAND for future DirectFlash Module products.
Posted January 20, 2025
President Joe Biden issued an executive order to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, calling for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities. The move aims to address enormous power needs in a short time frame.
Posted January 20, 2025
Since the early days of hardware and software, major vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, SAP, and others have leveraged vendor lock-in as a strategic approach to gain customer advantage. This tactic shifts the balance of power to vendors, enabling them to expand and retain their business base.
Posted January 16, 2025
The interest surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has never been higher, but AI agents are the next wave of innovation enterprises need to prepare for. An AI agent is a fully automated program with complex reasoning capabilities and memory that uses an LLM to solve problems, creates its own plan to do so, and executes that plan.
Posted January 15, 2025
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, is acquiring SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a next-generation data transformation technology—enabling dbt Labs to integrate SDF's powerful multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt.
Posted January 14, 2025
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
Articul8 AI (Articul8), a generative AI (GenAI) enterprise software company, is releasing A8 Essential, an innovative self-service GenAI product that empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data. According to the company, A8 Essential fills the unmet need in the market to build complex, domain-specific, enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted January 13, 2025
A lot of SAP customers and consultants look at SAP BW/4HANA as a "lower-class" SAP system. Something for "someone else" to worry about. They forget about all the work that went into setting up their company's data warehouse in SAP BW/4HANA, or further back, like some of my early SAP consulting projects on BW7 and BW3.5.
Posted January 09, 2025
While the generative AI (GenAI) revolution is rolling forward at full steam, it's not without its share of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The great promises that can be delivered through large language models (LLMs) are tainted by concerns over hallucinations, bias, data security, "black-box" decisioning, and outdated information.
Posted January 09, 2025
After more than 2 decades of writing for DBTA, this will be my final column. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to engage with you on databases and emerging technologies. As with all good things, this journey must end, and I want to use this moment to reflect on the changes we've witnessed during the past 20 years and look ahead to the future.
Posted January 09, 2025
In 2025, preventing risks from both cybercriminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware, in particular, continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in building turnkey generative (GenAI) and AI solutions for enterprise customers.
Posted January 09, 2025